On this day, William Blake, at the age of fourteen, was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire of Great Queen Street, for the sum of £52.10, for a term of seven years, at the end of which he became a professional engraver. Blake, greatly supported by the artistic talents of his wife Catherine Boucher, devoted his life to poetry, painting and printmaking. Although considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake came to be highly regarded by later critics and readers for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. The 19th-century scholar William Michael Rossetti characterised him as “a glorious luminary”, and “a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors.”
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